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Engage Ottawa

The City of Ottawa wants your input on the projects, policies, programs, and services that affect your daily life. From open houses to workshops and online engagement opportunities, your feedback helps to shape City decisions.

The City offers residents a variety of opportunities to engage, share information and collaborate. You can weigh in on different online engagement opportunities using the City’s new innovative engagement platform, Engage Ottawa(link is external).

Ongoing engagement opportunities

Online engagement

  • Public Information about Accessibility Features in Parks(link is external)

    • City parks are important community assets that provide residents with opportunities for leisure, sport and play. Over the last several years, the City has included many enhancements to its parks to make play in our playgrounds more inclusive, and to provide park features that are more accessible for everyone to enjoy.

      We are seeking your input to learn what accessibility features you would like to know about when visiting City of Ottawa parks. We also want to know how you would like to access this information.

  • City buzz: Public engagement and communication review(link is external)

    • The City of Ottawa is refreshing our communications to better serve you. Whether it's through social media, email updates, or public engagement opportunities, we want to hear your feedback on how we communicate with you.

      Complete a short survey about how you prefer to hear from us. The survey(link is external) will close on Friday, February 21. Your feedback will help shape our efforts to improve communications from our central social media channels and newsletters.

  • Lansdowne 2.0 North Side Stands(link is external)

    • The City of Ottawa is moving forward on schedule with the redesign of the Event Centre and North Side Stands at Lansdowne, a project that will transform the site into a modern sports and entertainment destination. Explore the new renderings(link is external) and see what the future of Lansdowne could look like. Residents are encouraged to share their feedback and stay informed about upcoming engagement opportunities, including public information sessions about the North Side Stands on January 15 and 16.

  • Newcomer Reception Centres(link is external)

    • The City of Ottawa is proposing up to two potential locations for newcomer reception centres. 

      Construction will take place at the primary site, 1645 Woodroffe Ave., on the federally owned Nepean Sportsplex property. The secondary site at 40 Hearst Way, on part of the Eagleson Park and Ride, is dependent on funding and other factors.

      We are looking for your perspective on what the City can do to make the newcomer reception centres work in the community.

  • A city with a diversified and prosperous economy(link is external)

    • Imagine an Ottawa where entrepreneurs can seamlessly make their dreams a reality, where our communities and main streets are vibrant and pulsing with economic activity, and where the downtown core is an active hub of innovation and culture.

      We’re taking steps to achieve our goal of encouraging and facilitating economic growth, prosperity, diversification and resiliency across the city. A city with a diversified and prosperous economy would provide equitable access to opportunity for all and make Ottawa a destination of choice to live, work, play, invest, learn, and visit.

  • Urban Expansion in Future Neighbourhoods(link is external)

    • The City of Ottawa is growing through the expansion and creation of new neighbourhoods across the City.

      In late 2022, The Province and City approved the new Official Plan that identified new growth areas to accommodate new housing, industry, businesses, parks and cultural assets. 

      Each of these areas will undergo a planning process in keeping with the guidelines for new plan development. This includes environmental, engineering and related background studies, context specific information and public engagement. As each plan area has its own challenges and opportunities, terms of reference have been created to ensure appropriate and sufficient information is gathered to plan each area sensitive to the surrounding neighbourhoods, contexts and to ensure each area is in keeping with the larger goals of the Official Plan.

  • Climate Resiliency Strategy(link is external)
    • The City is developing a Climate Resiliency Strategy to assess how Ottawa is vulnerable to climate change and identify strategies to mitigate the greatest climate risks.